UN climate conference host Brazil urges nations to negotiate and find solutions to global warming
With a direct letter sent to nations, host country Brazil is shifting the U.N. climate conference into a higher gear.
The letter sent late Monday comes during the final week of what has been billed as a historic climate summit, the first ever in the Amazon rainforest, a key regulator of climate because trees absorb carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that warms the planet.
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